Winners of the independent pilot competition were announced by SeriesFest, the Denver-based international showcase for established and emerging creators, which just completed its second annual festival.

SeriesFest: Season Two featured a solid celebrity lineup of creators, actors and network executives, including Carlton Cuse (“Lost,” “The Strain”), Kim Cattrall (“Sex and the City”) and NBC president Jennifer Salke, plus international premieres.

Organizers said the four-day festival drew 12,000 attendees.

“Farr” was named Best Pilot in a Drama and “Truth Slash Fiction” was named Best Pilot in a Comedy in this year’s Independent Pilot Competition. The competition included 34 official selections, screened at the Sie FilmCenter last week. Maisie Williams and Michael K. Williams.

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“Farr” was named best drama pilot at “SeriesFest” in 2016.

Randi Kleiner, CEO of SeriesFest, said in a statement, “Our jury certainly had their work cut out for them in determining the 2016 award winners, and we cannot wait to see what the future holds for all 34 of these remarkable pilots.”

The Storytellers Initiative Prize, presented in partnership with YayBig and Parallel Entertainment, was awarded to Claire Epstein’s “Amazing Jane.” Epstein will receive a development deal with YayBig and Parallel Entertainment. SeriesFest and Interlude awarded the 48-Hour Interactive Series Jam Prize to “The Day Before.” After a two-day hackathon, the winning team receives $10,000 in production funds and their interactive series will premiere on Interlude’s entertainment platform, Eko.

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“Truth Slash Fiction” was named best comedy pilot at “SeriesFest” in 2016. Photo provided by SeriesFest.

The El Rey Network Diversity in Storytelling Award went to Ian Verdun’s “Life’s a Drag.” And Virgin Produced, the film and television production arm of Virgin group, gave the Virgin Produced Choice Award to “Distance,” “Dropping the Soap,” “Five Star,” “It’s a Hit!,” “Rack & Ruin,” “Riftworld Chronicles,” “Supreme Twitter” and “Truth Slash Fiction” — all of which will be screened via Virgin Produced Channels aboard Virgin ships and in Virgin Hotels.

Last year’s inaugural SeriesFest brought 26 pilots into competition. Gov. John Hickenlooper announced at the time that the festival was intended to “widen the landscape of making film and television in Colorado.” This year, although the number of pilots increased, the governor’s pronouncement was slightly less ambitious. He wrote in an introduction to the festival program: “the artist and creative community is essential to Colorado’s vitality and we are thrilled to continue to cultivate this community with such important programs as this.”

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